It comes months after the Church of England called on the British government to ban gay so-called ‘conversion therapy’.

During a debate among the General Synod in York back in July, two C of E members shared their own experiences of conversion therapy, and the church’s governing body concluded that the practice had “no place in the modern world”.

Conversion therapy methods range from counselling and hypnosis to more barbaric techniques such as electric shock aversion therapy, and the practice is widely discredited by the scientific community.